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BioWare and Electronic Arts have released the latest update for their Star Wars MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic. With this latest version of SWTOR, players are no longer occasionally disconnected from the game when interacting with a mailbox, while mouse click functionality has been improved. And as you may have guessed, this update comes with various tweaks and improvements to the game’s classes. You can view the entire changelog after the jump.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1.3 Changelog:

Classes and Combat

General
•Surge rating has been re-balanced. It now reaches diminishing returns the same way as other damage ratings, and its per point damage contribution has been reduced by approximately 10%.

Bounty Hunter

Mercenary

Arsenal
•Stabilizers: Correctly adds pushback resistance to Unload.

Trooper

Commando

Companion Characters

General
•Some taxis that failed to re-summon companions upon reaching their destination now properly re-summon them.
•Companions no longer indicate they wish to speak with you when you are not yet eligible for their next conversation.
•If a player is invited to a nearly full group and declines, that player is no longer prevented from summoning a companion.

Crew Skills

Crafting Skills
•Non-stackable crafting materials are now refunded if the crafting assignment is canceled.
•The number of non-stackable crafting materials a player has is now correctly reflected in the crafting UI.

Biochem
•Exotech schematics will now function properly.
•Crafting Exotech consumables now results in three items with a chance of one additional item on a crafting critical.

Flashpoints and Operations

General
•Conversation rewards like Social and Alignment Points and Companion Affection are gained more consistently during Hard Mode Flashpoints.

Flashpoints

Boarding Party
•In Hard Mode, players are no longer blocked from re-entering the Flashpoint in some circumstances when the group is defeated during the encounter with Jorland.